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I don't understand that connection you made. Care to explain?
You can't determine someone is a psychopath via a brain scan yet. You can't even determine someone has Alzheimer's with only a brain scan, even though it's pretty well understood which brain regions are damaged in the disease. Psychopathy is a syndrome, and still quite poorly understood. Note also that there would be significant problems with testing if he went to a psychiatrist after knowing his scan results.
I think that neuroscientist is just trying to make money by claiming he's a psychopath, which of course would be quite a psychopathic thing to do :)
It struck me as relevant to the philosophical question: here's someone who has had to think hard about "what makes a psychopath or sociopath?" He is in his social actions a reasonably normal and productive citizen, but worries about how much of a dick he can be, including potentially.